Characters / Girls Frontline Griffon And Kryuger

Girls' Frontline Characters
T-Dolls & Fairies: Handguns (HG) | Submachine Guns (SMG) | Assault Rifles (AR) | Rifles (RF) | Machine Guns (MG) | Shotguns (SG) | Fairies | Heavy Ordnance Corps
Factions: Griffin & Kryuger Security | Sangvis Ferri | Paradeus | Other enemy factions

The Griffin & Kryuger Security Firm is a Private Military Contractor dedicated to using T-Dolls in defending and reclaiming human habitats from rogue T-Dolls of the Sangvis Ferri.

In General

• Doomed by Canon: The entire organization falls under this trope thanks to the setting of Girls Frontline II: Exilium. The game is slated to take place ten years after the events of Girls Frontline, with G&K being deemed "too powerful" by the government to exist and thus forcibly disbanded. The Commander has to eke out a living doing mercenary work along with a few T-Dolls as a result. The events of Poincare Recurrence reveal that they weren't actually disbanded by the government, but by Kryuger himself after the majority of the staff are wiped out in battle against the remnants of Carter's forces.
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: At the end of Part 1 of Polarized Light, the vast majority of Griffin has been wiped out by KCCO, with only the Commander, their T-Dolls, and Kalina confirmed as having survived.
  • Happens again in Poincare Recurrence. Carter's rebels attacked Base S09 while Griffin was still recovering from the losses mentioned above — this time without the Commander to help. The losses were so thorough Kryuger disbanded Griffin on the spot, instead taking Helian, Persica, and a handful of Dolls who survived to rendezvous with the Commander in Berlin.
• Can't Catch Up: Despite their best efforts, Griffin is woefully outclassed by KCCO in every encounter. G&K are a PMC, after all, and are limited by international laws, while KCCO, being a state-backed military group, does not have these restrictions, and likely is capable of breaking them anyways without being noticed.
• Enemy Mine: G&K decide to unite with Sangvis Ferri during Polarized Light to escape total annihilation by KCCO.
• Faction Motto: "The shining beacon in a brave new world". One snippet in Isomer reveals that the Rossartrism movement has the exact same motto, suggesting a connection between the two.
• Godzilla Threshold: G&K normally try to remain within the bounds of international law, so if they are forced to break it, things have really gone to hell.
  • Due to the extraodinary increase in enemy firepower after Chapter 8, as well as facing off against Paradeus, Kruyger authorizes the usage of the Heavy Ordnance Crews, even though doing so is illegal.
  • Taken even further during Polarized Light - KCCO's near annihilation of the group makes the survivors desperate enough to ally with/attempt to procure the aid of the remnants of Sangvis Ferr.
• Private Military Contractors: As stated above, G&K are a PMC dedicated to defending mankind from Sangvis Ferri.
• Underdogs Never Lose: In a very, very roundabout manner - while G&K gets put through the ringer throughout all of the events and is subjected to a massive Curb-Stomp Battle in Polarized Light that sees most of their forces wiped out, the times they've been able to slip away from total annihilation certainly fits this trope.

The Commander

The Commander

The default appearance of the Commander, as of implementation of Commander's Closet.

Voiced by: Rina Sato (Female Commander, Madness Chapter); Makoto Takahashi (Male Commander, Madness Chapter); Mikako Komatsu (Anime, Japanese); Arryn Zech (English)

The player character. A freshly minted commander assigned to area S09.

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• Adapted Out: As Gentiane acts as a representative for the player character, The Commander from the actual game does not exist in the manga or anime.
• Ambiguous Gender: A hard one to nail down due to their gender's disparity between the official manga, the game itself, and various other supplementary materials.
  • The Commander is ostensibly male in the game, associated 4-koma and anime adaptation, if the way T-Dolls address them is any indication (DP28 explicitly refers to them as "young man" in the English translation, for example).
  • At the same time, one of the official mangas (and the anime based on it) depict them as an absurdly-young woman named Gentiane, as shown below.
  • Other official mangas depict the Commander as male.
  • The Madness Chapter anime seems to settle for the Learning with Manga! FGO treatment, in which the Commander is typically depicted as female, with MADCORE's design serving as the male counterpart who takes the spotlight every now and then.
  • Played With with the introduction of Commander's Closet. The default Commander appearance has them wearing a unisex coat and face-concealing gas mask. You can then set your gender to be male, female, or keep it as ???. Furthermore, no clothing option is gender-locked, meaning the player is free to dress as they please. Played with again in some Cafe stories where, depending on the events, the Commander can use replies indicating they're male or female.
• Badass Normal: While physically inferior on every aspect compared to T-Dolls, the Commander prides themselves to never miss tactical courses or practice (and dragging Kalina along, much to her sorrow) and it shows; during the Gunslinger Girl collab and Polarized Light, they hold their own and even win (for a bit) against the human Five Republics soldiers and KCCO troopers.
• Big Damn Heroes: Their first official fielding of Heavy Ordnance Corps units in the Continuum Turbulence event has them bombarding the White Faction units HK416 and her Ragtag Bunch of Misfits have been running from. The player can even decide to a small extent what their Pre-Mortem One-Liner is when the dust settles.
• Butt-Monkey: Whenever there's a seasonal event, things rarely (if ever) seem to work out in their favor. They were forcibly quarantined over the fake disease and seemingly forgotten about in Freaky Night, sent the bill for the damages the base sustained in A Snowy White Capriccio when they were away for most of it and left the Dolls under Kalina's care, almost died to their own Dolls during what was supposed to be a relaxed assignment in Far Side of The Sea (twice, in fact), and was hounded so badly for their Christmas Coin in "One Coin Short" that they had to go into hiding.
• Character Customization: The Commander's Closet system allows you to fully customize the Commander's appearance.
• Character Development: Surprisingly enough, for someone who is meant to be a stand-in for the player. The Commander's dialogue becomes increasingly jaded and weary as events in the plot go From Bad to Worse.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: The tutorial frames "looting" T-Dolls as rescuing them. This gets lampshaded near the end of chapter 1 of Operation Singularity — Task Force DEFY gets to witness the Commander doing their thing even with Sangvis Ferri and the military barreling down on them. Kalina even notes that not doing so "just isn't our style". This gets them nearly killed at the end of Singularity chapter 2, when Agent manages to catch them in a trap while they're running around helping abandoned T-Dolls retreat from the battlefield.
• Determinator: Even though they get tortured over and over again during Continuum Turbulence, the Commander endures long enough for UMP45 and HK416 mount a rescue operation.
  • In Polarized Light, despite having the vast majority of their forces wiped out, their armed train blown apart, and minutes away from being overwhelmed by KCCO forces, the Commander still refuses to give up.
• Depending on the Artist: The Commander's gender, age, and how beautiful, handsome, cute and/or dorky they look depends entirely on the artist.
• Dialogue Tree: The player can determine what the Commander says (to minor, if any, effect) in certain cutscenes of the Continuum Turbulence event. This includes several joke options, like turning them into a Deadpan Snarker, Boisterous Bruiser or Casanova Wannabe, all at different points in the story.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The earlier chapters of the game make the Commander a truly Featureless Protagonist, not even having any dialogue of their own - instead, anything they supposedly said out loud is reiterated by other characters. This slowly but surely changed as more story content came out, with the Commander eventually getting as much dialogue as most of the other recurring characters in the story.
• Ensign Newbie: Despite being a relatively new face at the start of the game, the Commander quickly found themselves in command of a lot more experienced T-Dolls like the AR Team. Subverted in that many of the squads under their command come to like the Commander. In the manga, the Commanders shown so far are no older than 25 years old, which is rather young for people who control an entire military base.
  • The anime justifies this: it's only been 11 years since T-Dolls were put into use and one year since the SF uprising. Conventional military personnel have no idea how to fight T-Dolls using T-Dolls, so Griffin recruits their Commander straight from military academies. They put more emphasis on adaptability and aptitude over experience.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Simply known as "Commander", or alternatively "Griffin Commander".
• Fatal Flaw: Chronic Hero Syndrome — the Commander will go out of their way to help out anyone they can, something their enemies eventually pick up on. Agent almost plugs them in Singularity when they are trying to save several trapped Dolls, while Paradeus uses Machlian to put the Commander in a situation where the only reason they survive is a completely unexpected Big Damn Heroes moment from M4A1. This is also the prerogative of Operation Aeneas — The Commander can't bear the thought of leaving a fellow comrade in the clutches of their enemy, so despite meager resources, minimal intel, and repeated warnings to not do it from Mr. Griffin, the Commander sent several squads of Dolls to infilitrate Avernus, the heart of Paradeus itself. This fails, unsurprisingly, made worse with Ange's decision to stay in Avernus.
• A Father to His Men / A Mother to Her Men: The Commander cares deeply for the dolls under their command, and is visibly distraught by mounting losses during G&K's fighting retreat against the KCCO in "Polarized Light".
• Four-Star Badass: It's implied that the Commander is actually a formidable combatant in their own right, with moments such as gunning down three Nytos after being tortured for God knows how long and holding their own against elite KCCO infantry with an injured arm demonstrating their combat prowess. It's just that even the most basic T-Doll under their command can easily surpass their physical feats.
• From Zero to Hero: At the beginning the story, the Commander starts off as just another Griffin officer stationed in a relatively quiet sector. However, as the Commander gets pulled deeper and deeper into the conspiracy surrounding AR Team and Sangvis Ferri, they very quickly make a name for themselves as a commander that can somehow pull victory out of the most impossible situations. This has (un)fortunately made the Commander the go-to fixer for some of the biggest names in espionage, such as Soviet Statesec, the CEO of IOP, and the cabal of Rossartrists secretly backing G&K. Even the Commander's enemies recognize the danger they pose and often designate the Commander as a priority target.
• Gas Mask, Longcoat: This is the default Commander attire.
• Hero of Another Story:
  • Operation Singularity, in which Task Force DEFY are the main stars while the Commander and their G&K T-Dolls are kicking ass elsewhere.
  • The same thing happens in Dual Randomness. The Commander readjusting to Base S09 and their efforts to investigate the ruined Sangvis base takes a backseat to Task Force DEFY's investigation in Bremen.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: The default male and female heads both feature these.
• The Immune: Mirror Stage heavily hints that the Commander develops either full or partial immunity to ELID.
• Knight in Sour Armor: The Commander's dialogue becomes notably more cynical in later events and story missions, despite insisting on doing the right thing. Justifiable seeing as how Griffin was shafted by the KCCO following Operation Singularity, later to be put in a war on all fronts by Sangvis and Paradeus forces that would nearly decimate the PMC altogether.
• The Main Characters Do Everything: Deconstructed - the Commander may be the one who advances the plot, but this weighs heavily on them and their allies.
  • Having to constantly be involved in life-threatening situations and operations with extreme importance causes Heroic Fatigue to set in, with the Commander steadily getting more exhausted while their forces gradually end up depleted from the unending fighting.
  • The Commander gets many additional force multipliers to assist in their objectives due to how important they are, but these only seem to go to them as opposed to the entirety of G&K. This is a contributing factor to the organization being functionally wiped out after Carter's attack in Poincare Recurrence.
  • The scope of the plot eventually expands to the point where the Commander is forced to take on tasks they aren't suited for, which sees them struggling and nearing failure.
• Named by the Adaptation: In the official manga (and the 2022 anime), the Commander is a young woman named Gentiane.
• Nice Guy: From what we can infer from the cafe stories and later chapters of the plot, the Commander clearly cares about those serving alongside them, be they fellow humans or T-Dolls, though MADCORE's own version is a straight-up Jerkass.
• Non-Entity General: You don't get to see the commander's face. This is increasingly downplayed as more chapters are released, as the Commander takes a more visible role in the plot, even gaining dialogue options in Continuum Turbulence. By Shattered Connexion (three years after the game launched), the Commander finally makes an explicit appearance through the Commander's Closet system.
  • Averted with the official manga, which depicts several commanders with distinct appearances.
• Oblivious to Love: In "Departure Time" of Dual Randomness, Kalina hints at retiring with the Commander to a Green Zone after being awarded the appropriate passes. Like any protagonist in an anime (or animesque work), they don't pick up on this.
• Rage Breaking Point: It's not like the Commander never expresses their frustration, but they always try to keep calm even in highly-stressful moments. That is, until Morridow kills Machlian right in front of their eyes.
  Commander: MOR! RID! DOW!
• Precision F-Strike: While not the first F-bomb dropped in the game (the honor belongs to RO635), they get the first uncensored one during Polarized Light upon witnessing the four AA-02 Sinner/Ares.
  Commander: What the fucking hell are these things?!
• Porn Stash: Implied to have one in USP Compact's post-Oath line.
• Purely Aesthetic Gender: Gender doesn't affect Commander skills or what kind of outfits they can wear.
• Saved by Canon: The player character of Girls' Frontline 2 is the exact same Commander in Girls' Frontline, meaning they are guaranteed to survive the 10 year gap between both games.
• Shout-Out: Story-wise, they're shaping up to be one for Big Boss, being the Commander of a Private Military Company who is A Father to His Men and ends up being betrayed by their country (assuming they are from Eastern Europe) and branded as a terrorist.
• Super-Deformed: Also played for laughs. The Commander is depicted as a short, rotund uniformed man with white hair and monocle in the official 4-koma by MADCORE, where his assigned personality is Jerkass more often than not. It is said that this doesn't accurately reflect his character in the game itself, however, since A Commander Is You.
• Supporting Protagonist: Despite them being the Player Character, the real protagonist of Girls Frontline is actually M4A1. If anything, the Commander is arguably her Lancer after the AR Squad disbanded.
• You Are in Command Now: Inverted in Polarized Light. After having 95% of their dolls annihilated by KCCO, the Commander volunteers to infiltrate behind enemy lines simply because there's no one else left.
• Working-Class Hero: Possibly. The Commander's unfamiliarity with the Green Zone Pass and pieces of dialog from Isomer suggests they're from a Yellow Zone or worse (tellingly, Kalina, who comes from a background of poverty, views receiving one as a massive honor and chews them out for "misplacing" it).

Gentiane Camus

^{Click to see her appearance in the anime.} 

Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese), Arryn Zech (English)

Commander of Base 794. She represents the Player Character in the official manga and anime.

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• A Mother to Her Men: Despite her aloof appearance, she does care for the dolls under her command.
  Gentiane: "I'm not standing in front of the command console to watch them become piles of scrap. Dolls might not die as easily as fragile humans, but I still want them to come back unharmed. Especially you... M4."
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the manga, her hair is gray and pink-tipped, while her hair in the Anime of the Game is a more subdued shade of pink all around.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Despite being lazy, Gentiane is a capable commander when she takes things seriously as shown during a simulation battle with Commander Kamolov where she defeats the latter's forces after getting to know the new T-Dolls under her command and using whatever skills or advantages they have to good use.
• But Not Too Foreign: If the artist for the manga is to be believed, she was born in an indeterminate region of North Africa and moved to Ukraine at the age of six.
  • A Freeze-Frame Bonus in the 2022 anime clarifies that she was born in Drean, Algeria.◊
• Establishing Character Moment: Her first scene has her being beaten up by G36 for oversleeping, begging the T-Doll to let her sleep more, and then introducing herself in a curt and professional manner to M4A1. Even M4A1 balks at the idea that she is a commander.
  • In the anime, Gentiane's first act as a Commander is to arrange interviews with the base's T-Dolls, showing her uncommon empathy towards Dolls (which Helian warns her against). She also accurately deduces the quirks of each Doll and the nature of her first assignment, thus establishing her keen insight.
• Floral Theme Naming: Her name comes from the Gentianaceae floral family.

Jun Shi

Commander of Base 601.

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• Handsome Lech: Downplayed, but the first thing he does when meeting Gentiane in person is to flirt with her.
• Long-Range Fighter: He seems to specialize in long-range fire support, given that the dolls he is shown commanding are RFs, and he uses an Mk 14 EBR when fighting alongside them.
• Otaku: As Chapter 8 shows, his personal quarters is decorated with anime figurines and posters.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Certain scenes render his glasses like this.

Feodor Kamolovich Kamolov

Commander of Base 737.

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• Gatling Good: He uses a man-portable minigun when repelling SF units from the Griffin secret base.
• Husky Russkie: At 195 cm, he towers over Gentiane and Jun Shi, and the support unit he brings during the assault on Sangvis base consists of Russian MG T-Dolls.
• It Has Been an Honor: When he and the other commanders are cornered by Sangvis attack on the secret G&K meeting. Everyone else is less than pleased.
  Kamolov: "Comrades! I am deeply honored to have been able to struggle alongside you all to the bitter end!"
  Jun Shi, Gentiane, Kawasaki: "SHUT UP!"
• Oblivious to Love: Kamolov appears to be completely unaware of PPK's affection towards him.
• Younger Than They Look: Would you believe that he's supposed to be 23?

Kawasaki

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• Artificial Limbs: Her left leg is a prosthetic. Chapter 25 reveals that an IED blew it up along with her three year-old brother.
• Close-Range Combatant: She is shown to command an SMG echelon during the SF attack.

Franklin

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• Classy Cravat: Wears a posh cravat alongside his G&K uniform.
• Non-Action Guy: Instead of commanding dolls to fend off Sangvis units during the attack, he was in charge of injecting bakelite to reinforce the base's structure. Justified, as he is a robotics researcher first and foremost.

Helian

Helianthus

Voiced by: Rui Kariya (Japanese), Anastasia Muñoz (English)

A senior commanding officer who directs and oversees the Commander's activities.

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• Armchair Military: She is seeing during Operation Cube relaying orders to 404 squad in her own office, sitting in an ornate chair, reading reports from a notepad while drinking a hot cup of tea. Justified as she is a high-ranking Griffin officer who would do best while far from the frontlines, and subverted in Poincare Recurrence, where she takes up arms to fight alongside Kryuger and the remaining dolls.
• Floral Theme Naming: Helianthus is the Latin name for sunflowers.
• High-Class Glass: Wears a single monocle to signify her senior status.
• Old Maid: She's worried about still being single despite her, uh, "significant" age. Kalina reveals that she secretly attends mixers as a result, something that Helian does not take well. Apparently, not even those help — one of the random events a city expedition team can encounter is bribing a bartender for info, who then whispers to the T-Doll that "Helian's last blind date was a failure".
• Put on a Bus: After Mr. Kryuger's arrest during the events of Singularity, she is not seen again until Chapter 13, which was released just over two years later.
• You Are in Command Now: After Kryuger's arrest during the events of Singularity, Helian is now in charge of Griffin PMC.

Kalina

Kalina

Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)

The Logistics Officer and the Commander's assistant.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair color was changed from ginger to blonde in the anime for whatever reason.
• Adaptational Modesty: In addition to her shirt being buttoned up some more, her breast size was significantly reduced. It's possible the latter was one of the anime's many errors.
• Animal Gender-Bender: Kalina's April Fools appearance is a giant tabby cat wearing her accessories. Tabby cats are almost always exclusively male, similar to how calicoes are genetically-predisposed to be female.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Don't let her money-grubbing tendencies fool you. For all of her quirks, Kalina is a very talented woman since not only is she responsible for the logistics in your base, she's also implied to be the one making up all the Combat Simulations. She even gears up for battle during the events of Continuum Turbulence and it's implied that she has a history as a frontline soldier herself.
• Bridge Bunnies: A cheerful girl who runs the shop, writes battle reports and optionally, serves as your secretary.
• Floral Theme Naming: Named after the Slavic word for Viburnum.
• Genki Girl: She's incredibly upbeat, no matter what the situation is at hand.
• Goggles Do Nothing: She always has a pair of glasses on her head, no matter what costume, but never over her eyes. The only time where she properly wears glasses is during the Isomer event where she disguises herself as a civilian journalist.
• Hidden Depths: Despite her money-grubbing tendencies, the 2020 Halloween event mentions that she organized a charity program. Even the dolls don't believe it's legit until they find empty G&K supply boxes in a nearby theater.
• Money Fetish:
  • Downplayed. Many, if not all, of her dialogue in the store is to goad you to spend money. Her eyes even turn into dollar signs in one of her Live2D animations. She, however, says that she doesn't like money all that much, she just like other things even less. K implies during Isomer that this is a consequence of her growing up poor before joining G&K.
  • Played with during the Bounty Feast event. Kalina falls for a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme involving a Survival DLC tournament in The Division to bring their base out of the red financially, but the Commander thinks she's doing it partially just to enjoy herself. When the Commander and Kalina are both knocked out of G&K's Survival tournament extremely early, Kalina starts running a livestream of the remaining contenders, running betting pools and getting a little too into the role of a Combat Commentator. The Commander, obviously, still isn't convinced she's doing all this just for the money.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her original artwork shows her with the top two buttons of her shirt undone, which also reveals her bra underneath. Averted with the censored and Live2D versions of her artwork where she wears a black undershirt.
• Put on a Bus: The journey through Talinn and Paldiski took its toll on her, and she had to sit Mirror Stage out due to being hospitalized for Collapse Radiation sickness. Her condition is what prompts the Commander to work with Machilian in synthesizing the anti-ELID serum.
• Saved by Canon: She appears in Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium, which is set ten years after the end of the first game, meaning whatever happens here, she guranteed to survive.

Kryuger

Berezovich Kryuger

Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (Game) Akio Ōtsuka (Anime)

The Russian co-founder and head of the Security Firm.

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• A Father to His Men: It's highly implied that the reason he agreed to found G&K in the first place is because he's sick of watching his subordinates die. He also becomes a sort of mentor figure to the Commander, giving them advice and guidance from time to time.
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign: While "Berezovich" is very much a Russian name, it's a surname, not a given name. "Kryuger" is most likely a Russification of the German surname "Krueger". While a German surname is completely plausible for a Russian character, the fact remains that Kryuger seemingly has two surnames and no given name.
• Benevolent Boss: Kryuger treats his employees exceptionally well, especially considering that he's a former military man leading a PMC. It's quite telling when a mercenary company has better working conditions for dolls compared to other organizations we've seen in the setting.
• Coat Cape: He wears his coat without putting his arms through the sleeves, a sign that he's a military leader.
• Floral Theme Naming: In Russian, Berezovich is derived from Berëza or Beryoza, which means birch tree.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He allows himself to be arrested by the Military for false charges of treason after KCCO turn on Griffin PMC during the events of Chapter 10 and Singularity to ensure the rest of the Commanders, T-dolls and staff of Griffin won't get blamed as well.
• Hunk: Even as a senior officer, Kruyger is seriously jacked. Best shown in the limited-time summer log in screen.
• Put on a Bus: Kryuger is arrested and sent to prison during Singularity. It's not until Dual Randomness he makes another appearance in the flesh.
• Retired Badass: Served with the New Soviet Union's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), and was chosen to lead a group of mercenaries to rescue Persica during the Third World War^note The choice of him being MVD is a bit odd, as the MVD has been responsible for the regular police forces of Russia since the time of Tsar Alexander I. They were only responsible for secret police duties under the Tsar and for a very brief period of less than a year under the Soviets. The trauma he experienced during this time led him to push for peace and found Griffin & Kryuger.
  • In Poincare Recurrence, Kryuger takes the fight to Carter's rebels with an RPG-7, and does a remarkably good job at fending them off even while outnumbered and outgunned.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Kryuger is stern to his subordinates, but he genuinely cares very much about them. He warns the Commander from becoming too attached to their T-Dolls because he don't want them to experience the grief of losing men during wartime.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: During the attack on G&K's secret base, he is shown with what appears to be a Colt Python as one of his sidearms.
• Scars Are Forever: Sports several scars across his body and face, likely from his time in the military.
• Spell My Name With An S: Is it Kruger, Kruyger, Kryuger, or Krüger?
• The One Guy: While there are several male characters in the official settings ^note mentioned only in the documents collected from the prequel sequel game Codename: Bakery Girl, Kryuger for a while was the only male character shown on screen. Averted later on as more and more male characters were introduced.

Griffin

Griffin Lyons

Co-founder of G&K and an old friend of Kryuger.

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• Hidden Agenda Hero: While Griffin is the co-founder of G&K and opposes William, his actual agenda and end goals are unknown since he goes out of his way to obfuscate them from both the Commander and Angelia. The only clue to his intentions is that he's a self-admitted Rossartrist, who desire some form of One World Order.
• Knowledge Broker: Implied. It is mentioned that he founded WaveTech as an intelligence firm, so he certainly has some stake in the intel business.
• Mole in Charge: Certain cryptic background materials heavily imply Griffin is a Rossartrist agent who created G&K for their own ends.
• Mysterious Backer: There's not a whole lot of information about him, but without his involvement, G&K as we know it won't exist. It's implied he created G&K for some unknown agenda.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Almost everybody refers to him as "The Earl" in public and hardly ever call him by his real name.
• Stiff Upper Lip: Mirror Stage mentions that Griffin is of British descent, and he demonstrates the stereotypical unflappability during his in-person appearances.
• Spell My Name With An S: His name has been spelled as both Griffin and Griffon in official media, though more recent materials seem to have settled for the former.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: He confides to Angelia in Mirror Stage that he knows human nature will never universally accept the new world order he has in mind, so he is planning to create a system that will force them to accept it.

Persica

Persica / Persicaria

^{Click to see her appearance in Project: Neural Cloud.} 

Voiced by: Karin Nanami (Japanese), Marissa Lenti (English)

The head (and sole member) of 16LAB and a former 90wish member, Persica is the developer of the Advance Statistic Session Tool system.

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• Barefoot Loon: Persica is barefoot in her character art and definitely eccentric, although more of a Bunny-Ears Lawyer than a Mad Scientist.
• Body Double: Neural Cloud reveals that Persica has a specialized Doll modeled after her called Persicaria, made to focus on AI research and attend meetings in her stead.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Looking at her, it's hard to imagine that she is one of the people responsible for the Tactical Dolls under your command. It's not that she is lazy in a traditional sense, mind, rather she's far too focused on her research to bother with anything else.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Sports these in her official illustration, a sign of her unhealthy work ethic.
• Floral Theme Naming: Persicaria is shared with a genus of knotweed. Meanwhile, Persica is shared with the scientific name for peaches (Prunus persica).
• Genius Sweet Tooth: She prefers her java sweetened. At least ten sugar cubes go into a single serving.
• Little Bit Beastly: She appears to have cat ears on her head. One of her adjutant lines reveals that those are just weirdly-shaped headphones.
• Motherly Scientist: Treats the Anti-Rain Team like her daughters, even hugging M4 after the latter woke up from a coma.
• Must Have Caffeine: Persica's addiction to coffee is very much blatant. According to her adjutant lines, she doesn't like the beverage at first, but she needed it to go through the day. As time went by, the line between "need" and "love" becomes blurred to her. She also invites the Commander for a cup of joe on several occasions.
• Older Than They Look: Whatever her age may be, she was stated to have worked as researcher in 2040.
• Suddenly Voiced: Persica is one of the few voiceless NPCs in the game that got dubbed in the Madness Chapter anime. She sounds just about as tired as one would expect of someone who perpetually has eye bags.

Anti-Rain

A legend continues

Experimental T-Dolls that are the brainchildren of Persica and serve as the protagonists throughout much of the campaign.

The group as a whole

• Super Prototype: All four of them are elite combat T-Dolls and Persica's pride and joy. M4A1 in particular has the ability to command other T-Dolls, an ability that's vanishingly rare in the Girls Frontline universe. RO635 herself is a prototype for third-generation Dolls.
• Underground Monkey: As implied by the team's logo, all of them wield Colt-brand firearms derived from the AR-15.

M4A1

The shy and reserved team leader.
See her entry in Girls' Frontline: Assault Rifles.

ST AR-15

The stoic and snarky one.
See her entry in Girls' Frontline: Assault Rifles.

M4 SOPMOD II

Hyperactive, both in and out of combat.
See her entry in Girls' Frontline: Assault Rifles.

M16A1

The mentor and Cool Big Sis of the group.
See her entry in Girls' Frontline: Assault Rifles.

RO635

The team's second leader. She takes M4A1's place in the story after her Heroic BSoD.
See her entry in Girls' Frontline: Submachine Guns.